A Natural Minor Scale — Guitalele

The A Natural Minor pattern on ADGCEA strings — see it, hear it, drill it.

The A Natural Minor scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the common family. Here it is mapped onto the Guitalele's ADGCEA strings, position by position, with the root highlighted so the pattern anchors to A wherever you play it.

The standard natural minor scale — melancholic, introspective, and deeply emotive. The most common minor sound in Western music.

Heard in: Pop, rock, classical, metal — the default minor sound of Western music.

Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.

Play each position slowly against the audio until the shape and the sound lock together, then take it to the progressions in A to use it over real changes.